Outback Heiress, Surprise Proposal by Margaret WayFrancesca Forsyth is happy, but when she inherits half of her grandfather's empire, she must come out of her shell and become a businesswoman! Handsome Bryn Macallan, the joint heir, watches this country girl evolve with interest...Adopted: Outback Baby by Barbara HannayNell Ruthven thought she'd missed her chance to be a mum when, at nineteen, she was forced to give up her baby for adoption. Now Nell's discovered she has a tiny grandson in need of care. And her teenage sweetheart, cattleman Jacob Tucker, is in town...Outback Doctor, English Bride by Leah MartynMaxi Somers has loved and lost. She gave up her chance of happiness, but now she's going to the Australian Outback to find Dr Jake Haslem, the man she let go. Maxi will do whatever it takes to open his heart as she knows now that her home is wherever Jake is. Views: 36
A novel inspired by a true story of survival.
Esfir Manevich is a young Jewish girl who lives in the Polish town of Kobrin in 1936. Facing anti-Semitism in public school, Esfir moves in with her charming aunt who runs a boardinghouse in the bustling city of Brest. Being younger than the other boarders, Esfir struggles to find a place in her new life, all the while worrying about her diminishing role in the family she left behind.
As the years pass, Esfir experiences the bombing of her hometown during the German invasion of 1939. When the Russians overtake the area, Esfir sees many of her socialist relatives and friends become disillusioned by the harsh restrictions. During the German occupation, Esfir and her family are enclosed in a ghetto where they develop heartbreaking methods of survival.
In the summer of 1942, shortly before Esfir’s thirteenth birthday, the ghetto is liquidated and the inhabitants are forced onto cattle cars destined for the killing fields?and Esfir must face unimaginable horror. Views: 36
Shayleigh Dougherty doesn’t do love…That's a lesson she learned from her mom years ago. Shayleigh and her Dad moved to Missouri to start a new life and things have never been better. So when Shayleigh's childhood best friend Sienna asks her to come back to Louisiana for the summer, she's hesitant. Everything she left remains right where it should stay, behind. Beau Granger spent his whole life in Lake Charles, LA. With a family business under his belt, and a great best friend, he has all he wants until he runs into Shayleigh on the side of the road. Fate has a funny way of bringing people together and this is a summer neither one of them dreamed possible. Can summer love survive or is it better left on the dirt road? Views: 36
In Fall we see the tentative beginnings of an unlikely romance - between schoolteacher Amy and drifting former graduate, Charles. In Winter we hear how her colleague Howard learns, seventeen years too late, that he has a daughter following a brief fling with collegemate Annie. Spring and Summer tell the story of his daughter's friend Rachel's relationships with her literature teacher, Stuart, and her dying father Reuben.Executed with exquisite sympathy, tenderness and emotional nuance, Either Side of Winter is a moving and elegiac picture of people whose lives are inextricably linked by circumstance, community - and a need to be loved. Views: 36
